Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-06 Thread Kevin Burton
In the integration with WiX and Visual Studio I notice that a file with the extension .wixpdb is created. The documentation at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/files.htm indicates that this file is "A .wixpdb file is created by the linker for each final output. It contains the debugging

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. You do not want to include your own Upgrade element (and UpgradeVersion element

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. Almost. You want: UpgradeVersion/@IncludeMinimum="yes" UpgradeVersion/@IncludeMaximum="no" Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.c

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
easons.com -Original Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:39 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. Almost. You want: Upgr

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
NS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:44 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an install

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
er the environment before printing this e-mail > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:16 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed prod

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
ssage- > From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:23 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > I am sorry you feel you are translating error messages but the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
neer BUYSEASONS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:54 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an install

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
BUYSEASONS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:54 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
March 03, 2011 11:11 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > The message is clear to you but you are the expert. I doesn't make sense to > me. Let me just try to explain my thought process

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin Burton
in Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:23 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > I am sorry but now I am getting: > > \Product.wxs(16,0): warning LGHT10

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-03 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
nesday, March 02, 2011 6:23 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > I am sorry but now I am getting: > > \Product.wxs(16,0): warning LGHT1076: ICE61: This product should remove > only older versions of i

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Burton
PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. The Product/@Id is of type AutogenGuid according to http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_product.htm. The AutogenGuid description says: Values of this type will look

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Burton
02, 2011 5:14 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. What version of WiX do you have? Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Burton
...@fiserv.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 5:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. Assuming you are using WiX 3.5.2519.0, then you need to put the MajorUpgrade element after the Package element. The Package

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:14 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > What version of WiX do you have? > > Edwin G. Castro > Software Developer - Staff > Electronic Banking Service

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
to:kev...@buyseasons.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:08 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > I get a squigly blue line (error) when I include the element > below the . I have the namespa

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Burton
Engineer BUYSEASONS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 4:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -Original Message- > From: Chris Lord [mailto:chris.l...@atterotech.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:29 PM > To: wix-users > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > Kevin > &

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Lord
PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. 'it' is the Package/@id that this thread is about. If I set the Product/@Id to "*" then how do I change it so that the previous version is uninstalled? Ke

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Burton
al Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. What is "it"? I usually set Product\@Id="*

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
; -Original Message- > From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:27 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > When I set it to "*" I ge

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Burton
, March 01, 2011 2:07 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. I would personally leave of Package/@Id and and set Product/@Id to "*". Or if you really want to set Package/@Id then set it to "*".

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-03-01 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 10:48 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an ins

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Lord
nt: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:28 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. > > Your new MSI has a new ProductCode? From that message it looks like it > hasn't. Another possibility is that the P

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Burton
lson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:28 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. Your new MSI has a new ProductCode? From that message it looks like it hasn't. Another possibil

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Wilson, Phil
discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. Right now it is not automatically uninstalling the product. I am met with the dialog instructing me to go to Add/Remove Panel. Currently I am using an earlier version of WiX so I guess I am r

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Burton
11:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. Kevin, Lesson 4 is/was based on Wix V3. Rob's reply refers to an addition to Wix3.5 though I would expect lesson 4 code probably still applies in V3.5. Depending on

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Lord
="InstallFinalize"> > > > Kevin Burton > Senior Software Engineer > BUYSEASONS > 262-901-2000 Office > 262-901-2312 Fax > kev...@buyseasons.com > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Thursday,

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Burton
bject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product. In WiX v3.5, MajorUpgrade element provides nice "syntactic sugar". Otherwise, you want to look at the Upgrade element. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Kevin Burton wrote: > I know this is an old question but I don't k

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Mensching
In WiX v3.5, MajorUpgrade element provides nice "syntactic sugar". Otherwise, you want to look at the Upgrade element. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Kevin Burton wrote: > I know this is an old question but I don't know the WiX syntax for > automatically uninstalling an installed product. I l

[WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-24 Thread Kevin Burton
I know this is an old question but I don't know the WiX syntax for automatically uninstalling an installed product. I looked at the documentation and I got confused with Major/Minor updates/upgrades. In my case if the product is install I *always* want to uninstall it before proceeding with the